Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.

He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.

And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.

Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.

In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men

Then Uzziah was angry and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house for he was cut off from the house of God and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.

So Uzziah went to rest with his fathers and they put his body into the earth in the field used for the resting-place of the kings, for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son became king in his place.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:

More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

And said to them, You are not to let these prisoners come here for what you are designing to do will be a cause of sin against the Lord to us, making even greater our sin and our wrongdoing, which now are great enough, and his wrath is burning against Israel.

And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord.

For Ahaz took a part of the wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the house of the king and of the great men, and gave it to the king of Assyria but it was no help to him.

For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.

And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in Jerusalem but they did not put him in the resting-place of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.

Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.

But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?

And it came about that when they were on the way to Jerusalem he went through Samaria and Galilee.

Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

And one of them, when he saw that he was clean, turning back, gave praise to God in a loud voice

And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?

And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way your faith has made you well.